Read Features & Reviews Interviews Rumpus Original Tangled Narratives: Curating an Anthology on the Realities of Natural Hair with Lyzette Wanzer Naya ClarkJune 19, 2023 I wanted to get Black joy into the book because that’s also part of our experiences.Read
Read Features & Reviews Interviews Rumpus Original Deconstructing the Troubled Teen Industry: a Conversation with Samantha Leach Natalie VillacortaJune 14, 2023 It’s culture that needs to change and not girls themselves.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original What to Read When From the Archives: What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Pride The RumpusJune 13, 2023 Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Pride Month!Read
Read Features & Reviews Interviews Rumpus Original A time to speak directly: A Conversation with Jesse Lee Kercheval Diane GottliebJune 12, 2023 . . . when I’m putting together a collection of poems, I want an emotional arc.Read
Read Features & Reviews Interviews Rumpus Original S/Talking Jared: A conversation with Jared Pappas-Kelley Jonathan MayhewJune 7, 2023 We swim in feedback, baby sharks, and it’s about how do we live in that and make sense or are perhaps shaped by it.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Rumpus Original Animal as Metaphor: Erica Berry’s Wolfish Melissa RodmanJune 6, 2023 Living entities, with whom we cannot communicate fully, seduce us in their majesty.Read
Read Features & Reviews Interviews Rumpus Original Donut Dollies and Maven Matriarchs: A Conversation with Luis Alberto Urrea Janet RodriguezJune 5, 2023 If you’ve got that outline already lived, then you have to try to honor it.Read
Read Features & Reviews Interviews Rumpus Original Toward a Glimmering Unknowable Self: A Conversation with Emerson Whitney Cameron FinchMay 31, 2023 The great thing about writing autobiographically, in these kinds of ways, is that I get to write the whole swarm of thoughts and connect them as I want to. Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Rumpus Original Recollections of a Non-Existence: Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X Vartika RastogiMay 30, 2023 “There was no con. There was no crime. There was only fiction.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Interviews Poetry Rumpus Original The Fragile Ecology of Teenage Boyhood in Shy: A Conversation with Max Porter Hamilton CainMay 29, 2023 We have to be urgent and radical in our belief that some solutions exist . . . Read
Read Features & Reviews Interviews Rumpus Original Against a Singular Story: A Conversation with Jane Wong Margaret Juhae LeeMay 24, 2023 In many ways, community is that which allows the heart to heal, and to heal that heart together.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Rumpus Original Memory Among Landscape: Alissa Hattman’s Sift Hannah PassMay 23, 2023 . . . in a barren world with little protection and corners to hide, it’s also impossible to hide from our thoughts . . . Read